Funded Plaintiff Sues Apple in the Northern District of California, Ignores Disclosure Requirement Under Local Rules

Competitive Access Systems, Inc. (CAS) has sued Apple (5:25-cv-04595) in the Northern District of California over the provision of products, including numerous specified models/generations of iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, “that implement multipath TCP (‘MPTCP’) in conjunction with Apple’s Wi-Fi Assist feature”, which automatically switches to a cellular connection when the device has a poor Wi-Fi connection. The inventor-controlled plaintiff alleges infringement of seven patents broadly related to networking, including network path optimization, bandwidth sharing, and/or multiple links between a source and destination for bonded data transmission. Represented by Practus, LLP (out of San Francisco, California) and Stinson LLP (out of St. Louis, Missouri), CAS has filed a “Corporate Disclosure Statement” as a “Certification of Interested Parties”, but that less fulsome disclosure falls well short of the district’s requirements for such a certification.